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This is a list of Superfund sites in Oklahoma designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
The following are global and local non-profit organizations relating to efforts to ban asbestos use and promote knowledge and understanding of asbestos disease in the community. These are generally community-based groups organized by former asbestos workers, persons with asbestos injuries or surviving family members of injured asbestos workers.
The HSE does not assume that there is any minimum threshold for exposure to asbestos below which a person is at zero risk of developing mesothelioma, since they consider that it cannot currently be quantified for practical purposes; they cite evidence from epidemiological studies of asbestos-exposed groups to argue that even if there is any ...
An asbestos concern could slow renovations, but if they delay too long, Oklahoma County could lose the millions in federal dollars allocated for them.
The Control of Asbestos 2006 regulations brought together three separate pieces of legislation which covered the prohibition of Asbestos, the control of asbestos at work and asbestos licensing. They prohibited the import, supply and use of all types of asbestos and also continued to ban the second hand use of asbestos products such as asbestos ...
Employees were exposed to asbestos between April 11, 2022, and March 9, 2023, a report from NMED's Occupational Health and Safety Bureau concluded. ... Sep. 1—The city of Albuquerque is facing a ...
The Oklahoma City skyline is pictured Dec. 3. Toronto researchers determined downtown Oklahoma City saw a 93% recovery after the COVID pandemic, ranking it fifth on the survey.
Asbestos Corporation Limited (ACL) is a Canadian corporation originally established to mine asbestos. ACL mainly open pit mined chrysotile asbestos in Thetford Mines, Quebec. [ 1 ] It is no longer involved in asbestos mining, but as a subsidiary of Mazarin Inc [ 2 ] it continues to exist to exploit the minerals contained in its tailings in ...